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Well I come from a Silver City by the sea
Where there's still a chance you won't come home
I can't see all these things you want me to see
Can't you hear the swell crash and foam?

My grandfather painted the trawlers at home
When he no longer could go to sea
And he spat on his whetstone and he carved them from wood
And he named them for my family

So we'll mutter some kind of prayer
For friends and lovers on white horses
The will and the wish from dry land
Like a light to keep them on their courses

So the other he built the boats on the Clyde
Like sailing skyscrapers they rose
But I'm thankful that he was not here to see
Those yards when the doors had to close

Now black gold is the soul of the North when I go
And the trawlers are just on TV
But the dolphins are jumping in the harbour below
And the larks beside the golf course sing for me

So we'll mutter some kind of prayer
For friends and lovers on white horses
The will and the wish from dry land
Like a light to keep them on their courses

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from Tales From The Cuckoo's Nest, released October 22, 2012
Jamie: Acoustic guitar, vocals, armadillo charango.
Meggan Reid: Violin.

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Jamie Flett Glasgow

Music maker from Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland, now living in Glasgow.
Since my first collection of skewed, folkish blues songs: ‘Cold But Bright’ I’ve tried to resist the artificial limitations of defining myself as a ‘singer-songwriter’ (admittedly, while writing and singing songs.) This has resulted in attempts to investigate some remoter sonic territories.. As well as more songs. ... more

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